After hitting the Super Bowl, robots have reached mainstream status. 🤖 engineering
In the commercial, Boston Dynamics' robots were depicted as a security force you want to party with. But what happens when they're not down to party?of Boston Dynamics' robot Handle — the predecessor to the newest robot from the firm, Stretch — a two-legged and single-clawed robot on wheels."Now everybody thinks we only do legged robots, so no one has seen this," said Founder Marc Raibert in 2017.
"We call this Handle because it's supposed to handle objects eventually," added Raibert. And in curating the complex programming for the staged party, the Boston Dynamics team had lots of practice making this a reality. It's revealed through the video that the consensus on how to make robots more affable is to give them the personality of a frat bro.
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